Spencer Wood, official residence of his Honor, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec; and on Thursday evening there was a reception at the University of Laval, given by the rector and professors. The Mayor's soirée in honor of the Congress was held at Kent House, Montmorency Falls, on Friday.

Among the resolutions, the following was passed: "The International Congress of Americanists has learned with great regret that Dr Albert S. Gatschet has been compelled to give up the continuation of his important investigations which he has carried on for many years, and expresses its admiration for the great services which he has rendered to Americanistic studies, particularly to those of Indian languages and of the ethnography of North America."

At the final session on Saturday morning, under the presidency of Dr Robert Bell, it was voted to hold the next Congress at Vienna in 1908. Many members remained to take part in the excursions of Saturday afternoon, Sunday, and Monday.

Among those who contributed largely to the success of the Quebec meeting, the services of Mgr J. C. K. Laflamme, Professor Franz Boaz, Dr N. E. Dionne and M. Alphonse Gagnon deserve special mention.

YALE UNIVERSITY,

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Alfredo Chavero

Señor Licenciado Don Alfredo Chavero died in the City of Mexico, October 24, 1906.

Señor Chavero was beyond question the dean of Mexican archeologists; but not only as an archeologist was he prominent he was a lawyer of eminence, an active politician, a man of affairs, a brilliant orator, and a successful writer.

Born in the City of Mexico, February 1, 1841, Alfredo Chavero began the active practice of law in his native city at the early age of twenty years, and in the year of his majority, 1862, was elected a deputy to Congress. He was a liberal in politics, and was associated with President Juarez during the period of the French invasion of Mexico under Maximilian. After the fall of the empire, in 1867, he entered journalism, thus beginning his career as a man of letters. Not being in sympathy with the administration of President Lerdo de Tejada, he went to Europe, returning when Lerdo de Tejada's term of office ceased, and serving under the new administration as subsecretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1871 he became governor of the Federal District, and for many years, until his death, was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, over which he presided at various times. He was long regarded as the most brilliant speaker in that body.

Notwithstanding the demands of his political offices, Señor Chavero found time to devote attention to numerous educational, administrative, and judicial organizations. He was professor of administrative law in the School of Commerce, a member of the commission that formed the commercial code, a director of the School of Commerce and of the College of Peace, Comptroller of the National Bank, a member of the permanent Arbitration Board at the Hague, a member of the Pan-American Congress held in

Mexico, the perpetual secretary of the Statistical and Geographical Society of Mexico for more than forty years, the director of the National Museum of Mexico in 1903, and the holder of various other positions of national importance. Señor Chavero was a founder of the American Anthropological Association, and a member of the editorial board of the American Anthropologist from the time it became the Association's official organ. He was also a member of the Société des Américanistes de Paris and of the American Antiquarian Society, and a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española de la Historia. He was president of the Mexican delegation to the Thirteenth International Congress of Americanists held at New York in 1902, and was one of the speakers on the subject of archeology at the International Congress of Arts and Sciences held at the Saint Louis Exposition in 1904. On both of these occasions he made many warm friends in this country by his genial and courteous manner.

Notwithstanding the many duties which Señor Chavero was called on to perform as a leading man of affairs, he found time to exercise his talent as a historian and an archeologist, and even to enter the field of dramatic literature. He was among the first students of modern times to make a careful comparative study of the Mexican calendar system, and it is due to his activity that the works of Duran, Ixtlilxochitl, and Camargo have been published. The following is a fairly complete list of Señor Chavero's anthropological publications:

Calendario Azteca.

(Appendix to Diccionario Geográfico Estadístico de la Republica Mexicana, Tomo III, entrega 108, Mexico, 1875.) Calendario Azteca: Ensayo Arqueologico. 2d ed., Mexico, 1876. Sahagun, Estudio. Mexico, 1877.

Explicacion del Códice Geroglífico de Mr Aubin.

(Appendix to His

toria de las Indias de Nueva España, by Duran, Tomo II, Mexico, 1880.)

La Piedra del Sol: Estudio Arqueologico. (Anales del Museo Nacional, Mexico, 1880-1901.)

Mexico a Través de los Siglos. Tomo I, Historia Antigua y de la Con

quista. Barcelona, 1884.

Antigüedades Mexicanas. (Text, with an explanation of the Lienzo of Tlaxcala, Mexico, 1892.)